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Scholarly commentary explaining a verse — its context, its meaning and how the scholars have understood it.

Al-Ahzab 33:72

Word by word

إِنَّا عَرَضْنَا ٱلْأَمَانَةَ عَلَى ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَٱلْجِبَالِ فَأَبَيْنَ أَن يَحْمِلْنَهَا وَأَشْفَقْنَ مِنْهَا وَحَمَلَهَا ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ ۖ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ ظَلُومًا جَهُولًا

Indeed, We offered the Trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, and they declined to bear it and feared it; but man [undertook to] bear it. Indeed, he was unjust and ignorant.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

إنا عرضنا الأمانة -التي ائتمن الله عليها المكلَّفين من امتثال الأوامر واجتناب النواهي- على السموات والأرض والجبال، فأبين أن يحملنها، وخفن أن لا يقمن بأدائها، وحملها الإنسان والتزم بها على ضعفه، إنه كان شديد الظلم والجهل لنفسه.

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